Herbal Eggs / Iron Eggs

I love herbal eggs a lot. Love the herbs but the herbs taste of the herbal eggs selling in shops are too blunt. Therefore, I decided to try making it myself. I encounter a webpage making iron eggs. Iron eggs are the delicacy in Taiwan. I love to eat that too, thus decided to try that out. I can't remember the webpage though.

The recipe:-

2 packet of quails eggs
6 chicken eggs
6 cups of black tea (I used good grade of Pu Er)
4 tbsp thick soy sauce (I used A4 brand)
6 tbsp soy sauce (I used Lee Kum Kei)
50g rock sugar

Herbs
2 Star Anise
3 pieces liquorice
1 piece of tangerine peel
1 piece of cinnamon bark (3 cm long)
7 cloves
2 pieces of dong gui

Cooking Steps

1. Put in eggs into a pot of tap water/
2. Boiled eggs with low fire. After it is cooked, put in cold water. Peeled them after a minute or two
3. While the eggs is being boiled, prepare tea. 
4. Mix all the herbs, rock sugar, soy sauce and thick soy sauce into the tea.
5. Put in the eggs into the mixture and boiled it with high fire.
6. After it is boiling, put it to low fire and simmer for ten minutes.

Let the eggs sit in the tea mixture for a day or two (simmer it once or twice in a day)

If you would like to prepare iron eggs, after number 6, cooled eggs under electric fan. Then repeat number 5 & 6 for ten times.

 

Gu Lou Yuk (Sweet and Sour Port)

My friend taught me how to make her special Gu Lou Yuk:-

 

Tenderize the pork. My family loves less fat so I get leaner meat. Below is the tenderize meat. I been hitting it for about half hour.

Put the pork into a bowl and mix it with juice (Salt, lemon, celery and onion)

Marinate it for at least two hours. While it is being marinated, I prepared the sauce using :-

1. Hoisin Sauce
2. HP Sauce
3. Lea Pearins
4. Tomato Sauce
5. Salt

Deep fried the meat after it is marinated. Before deep fried, I dried the meat with paper towel.

Cook the sauce, after it is boiling, put in the meat and cook it.

Served in a plate

TADA!!!!

Tien Tien (Seafood Restaurant)

Been to Tien Tien a few times. Finally I managed to take some pic and post this up

Ambience : Comfortable, the only seafood restaurant that is quiet and look classy. (not many people at night)
Food Taste :7.5 / 10
Waiting Time : Fast
Price : reasonable for seafood in kk and for such environment

The dinner was not paid by us, therefore, I could not publish any price.

The tauhu was silky soft and I just love the mushroom. This is a must dish for me. Taste better than tauhu with meat.

The prawn were fresh and were at medium size. Nothing to shout about.

The vegetable tasted so so.

The fish was very good. Fresh, the steaming time was just nice. The soy sauce gravy was tasty.

This is super delicious. Herbal Chicken. The restaurant used kampung chicken I guess. The soup / gravy tasted so good that I could eat that with plain white rice. The chicken meat was tender and succulent.

I definitely coming back for more!

Guddo Japanese Restaurant

Yesterday, we went to a newly open Japanese restaurant situated in Metro Town.

Ambience : Comfortable, not so noisy and love the seat.
Food Taste : 6.5 / 10 (the taste is so so but it food is fresh)
Waiting Time : Fast
Price : Slightly high for such portion

We try out the food via groupon. However we are told that all the set menu having 15% discount. Thus we ordered the only noodles set menu and others were groupon paid food.

This is salmon bento. The sashimi is very fresh but what I love most is the salad. I am not a fan of veggie, however, this salad is too good for me to resist. Aside that the fried rice is hot until the last bite as it was served in a hot pot.

The lemon tea is too sweet though. It tasted nice only after we added one cup of hot water

We had a 15% off this RM18 bento. This is the only bento with noodles. The noodles portion is too small though. It is suitable for those who eat less.

The food is so so but the environment is good.

Just Berry

Yam Rice

Out of the sudden, I wanted to cook yam rice. Never done this before, so I decided to give it a try.

The ingrediant are:-

yam (1/2 small size diced into bite size)

Pork belly (one long piece - cut into bite size)

Chinese Sausages (2)

a handful of dried prawn (cut it into smaller pieces)

3 pieces of Shitake mushroom (cut into thin slices),

4 onions (diced)

2 garlics (diced)

White long grain (3 cups)

Dark soy sauce

sweet dark sauce

soy sauce

Salt

Pepper

oil

 

1) marinate the pork with some salt and pepper (for 2 hours)

2) wash the grain and put aside

3) put some oil into the wok and heat it up

4) with small fire, fried the onion then garlic till crispy (make sure not burnt)

5) add in the pork and fried till it is nearly cooked

6) put in sausages, dried prawn, mushroom and yam, add in salt and pepper.

7) after frying till it is cooked, put in the grain and stir it. add in the Dark soy sauce, soy sauce, sweet soy sauce (all to taste). I like it not so sweet so my portion of the sauce was 3:2:1/2 (all using chinese soup spoon)

8) after frying, put the food into the rice cooker and add in sufficient water (like normally how you cooked the rice, I put in additional of  a quarter more water compared to the normal cooking).

9) The rice turn out to be perfect!

Patrick's Signature

We bought a groupon coupon which give discounted meal at Patrick's Signature. It seems to be a good deal according to my mom. We went there weeks ago (only now I have the chance to upload this, sorry for the delay).

First dish out was the salmon. It was sashimi kind, mixed with lemon or "kit chai", chillies and basil leave. It was very refreshing and tasty. This was a very very good dish. Next was the pork belly (it was stewed). It tasted just like a home cooked dish that my mom always made. however, the meat was quite fat to my liking. Another dish that was served was the snapper. I forgot the name of the dish however the gravy was very delicious and spicy. My brother like it though.

The vegetable that was served was the kailan with oyster sauce and there is nothing to shout about. Our Next favourite was the steamed chicken. It was very good. The meat was succulent. The timing of the steamed chicken was just right.

We shall be coming back for more. :)